View full sizeEliot Kamenitz, The Times-Picayune archiveThis aerial photo of Pontchartrain park, with the original SUNO campus seen at left, was taken in September.

"Here we go again, paying for another study. Haven't we been studied to death? Maybe all the unemployed people should become paid consultants. They seem to be the only ones making money in this 'bad' economy with all the studies being done on how to spend money."